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President Donald Trump must be trying to lose the state of Georgia for the Senate, says Atlanta Journal Constitution Senior Political Columnist Patricia Murphy, otherwise he wouldn\u2019t be trying so hard to repeat the history of his last humiliating failure.<\/p>\n

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\u201cInstead of visiting the state, talking to voters, stumping with GOP nominees, or most obviously, telling Georgians what Republicans might do to bring down the cost of living, the president is running backward into the fire of the 2020 election that he lost here and refuses to accept,\u201d said Murphy.<\/p>\n

There are pivotal elections underway with Republicans fighting for their lives, but the White House is bust announcing that Trump will deliver a major Thursday \u201caddress to the nation\u201d to revive disproven claims that he actually won the 2020 election in Georgia. He might even allege that Georgia\u2019s two 2020 Senate races were stolen in the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cIronically, anyone who lived through the 2021 Senate runoffs can tell you that it was Trump who cost former U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue their seats, not some international plot,\u201d said Murphy. \u201cHe sunk their chances with performances like the one he delivered at a rally in Dalton the night before the runoffs. Instead of focusing on Loeffler and Perdue and the work they had done in Washington, Trump started and stayed on the subject he just can\u2019t let go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHello, Georgia!\u201d he announced. \u201cBy the way. There\u2019s no way we lost Georgia. There\u2019s no way. That was a rigged election, but we\u2019re still fighting it, and you\u2019ll see what\u2019s going to happen.\u201d <\/p>\n

Loeffler and Perdue lost the next day, she added.<\/p>\n

Murphy said Trump was back in Georgia two years later to campaign against<\/em> Republicans Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the top state leaders who had rejected Trump\u2019s ploy to overturn Georgia\u2019s election results in 2020. Again, Murphy said Georgia voters in the primary and general elections rejected campaigns focused on claims of rigged elections, and Trump\u2019s preferred candidates running against Kemp and Raffensperger went down in flames.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFast forward to this week, with a Senate seat and an open governor\u2019s race on the line, and Trump is still talking about the election he lost here six years ago,\u201d said Murphy. \u201cBut this time, his focus on 2020 goes much further than just a speech he\u2019s planning. Not only did the FBI seize hundreds of boxes of 2020 election materials from a Fulton County warehouse earlier this year \u2014 an FBI memo obtained by the AJC showed that the agency has \u2018surged\u2019 260 FBI agents to investigate Fulton County ahead of a July 17 deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Trump is flubbing his old war. Last week, a federal judge appointed by Trump drop-kicked a subpoena from Trump\u2019s politicized Department of Justice that had sought the names, addresses, phone numbers and other personal information about all of Fulton County\u2019s 2020 election workers. Murphy said U.S. District Court Judge Billy Raycalled the request both \u201cstaggering\u201d and pointless.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe downstream effects of all this won\u2019t hurt the president in November. He\u2019s not on any ballot in 2026,\u201d said Murphy, adding that the damage will instead be done to U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, the Republican challenging U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff.<\/p>\n

\u201cRick Jackson, the GOP nominee for governor, won\u2019t be helped either,\u201d Murphy assured. \u201cAlthough he\u2019s well positioned with plenty of money, a compelling personal story and no particular relationship with Trump before this election to explain, GOP operatives know Jackson\u2019s chances of victory depend heavily on Ossoff\u2019s margins. If Ossoff beats Collins by a huge margin, Jackson could only outperform Collins by so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy Trump wants to dig out his losing Georgia playbook now is anyone\u2019s guess. But Collins and Jackson would be wise to reject it, acknowledge Georgia\u2019s legal election results and forge their own path to win in November,\u201d Murphy said.<\/p>\n

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